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Mendoza, Eduardo

Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish author who lives in Barcelona. His father was a lawyer and his mother a housewife. He read law in the early 1960s, graduating from the University of Barcelona in 1965. In 1966 he spent a year in London on a scholarship. Mendoza embarked on a legal career in 1967, which he abandoned when he moved to New York as a United Nations translator and interpreter. He...

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Kay Scarpetta

Gender: Female

Patricia Cornwell’s protagonist is a forensic scientist based in Virginia, USA. She has been described as just over forty years old, blond with several love interests and a few female competitors who do not appreciate her confidence. She is a highly competent forensic investigator and crack shot, which is useful since she is often under threat. Scarpetta likes to cook in her spare time.

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